Southwire Vice President Casey Long Joins WGTC Board of Directors
CARROLLTON, GA – West Georgia Technical College (WGTC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Casey Long, vice president of industrial manufacturing at Southwire, to its Board of Directors.
Casey brings nearly three decades of manufacturing and leadership experience to the WGTC Board of Directors, having begun his career with Southwire in 1996 as a machine operator and West Georgia College intern at the Carrollton Utility Plant. He advanced through roles of increasing responsibility, including supervisor, department manager, operations manager, and site leader at Southwire’s Starkville, Mississippi location. After returning to Carrollton in 2017 to oversee the Carrollton Building Wire and MC plants, Casey later resumed leadership in Starkville before being promoted on January 7, 2024, to Vice President of Industrial Manufacturing, where he now oversees six plants across the United States. He holds an associate degree in marketing from West Georgia Technical College and a bachelor’s degree in applied sciences with an emphasis in business and communications from Mississippi State University.
The West Georgia Technical College Board of Directors is composed of members nominated for their positions by area industry and educational officials and then selected and approved by the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia. The board’s purpose is to advise on program direction, serve as a check and balance for the development and implementation of college goals, objectives, policies and procedures, and advocate within the community issues on of importance to the technical college system and Georgia’s workforce development efforts.
“Casey’s appointment to the WGTC Board of Directors truly represents a full-circle moment,” said WGTC President Dr. Julie Post. “As a WGTC alumnus who started his career locally and went on to lead manufacturing operations across the country, Casey shows the real impact of technical education. His experience and connection to the college will be a great asset as we advance the mission of workforce education.”
West Georgia Technical College, with campuses in Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Haralson, and Troup counties and class sites in Heard and Meriwether counties, offers more than 120 associate degree, diploma, and technical certificate programs of study. A unit of the Technical College System of Georgia, West Georgia Tech is one of the largest of the state’s 22 technical colleges. For more information, please visit www.westgatech.edu.
